• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361:200500160
Corpus ID: 9278535

Isotopic abundances of carbon and nitrogen in jupiter-family and oort cloud comets

@article{Hutsemekers2005IsotopicAO,
  title={Isotopic abundances of carbon and nitrogen in jupiter-family and oort cloud comets},
  author={D. Hutsem'ekers and J. Manfroid and E. Jehin and C. Arpigny and A. Cochran and R. Schulz and J. Stuwe and J. Zucconi},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2005},
  volume={440}
}

• D. Hutsem'ekers, J. Manfroid, +5 authors J. Zucconi
• Published 2005
• Physics
• Astronomy and Astrophysics

The 12 C 14 N/ 12 C 15 N and 12 C 14 N/ 13 C 14 N isotopic ratios are determined for the first time in a Jupiter-family comet, 88P/1981 Ql Howell, and in the chemically peculiar Oort Cloud comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR). By comparing these measurements to previous ones derived for six other Oort Cloud comets (including one of Halley-type), we find that both the carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios are constant within the uncertainties. The mean values are 12 C/ 13 C ≃ 90 and 14 N/ 15 N ≃ 145 for the… Expand

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